The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police - and TV crews - are in hot pursuit.
Vernon God Little is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read - Pierre's prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero - but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass "learnings" give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character. (amazon)

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Enjoy!

Yay! Thank you so much for this book, ApoloniaX!

My boyfriend read the book and commented that 'he could have read this book much earlier', so I started reading it right after he finished it. I am only at page 40 now, but I am guessing that it won't take me too long to finish!

Wow, I really liked this book! I have been participating in the Man Booker Prize shortlist roundabout for the past two years. Hence, I have read the latest 'very best' novels written in English. I think that with Vernon God Little, the standard of 2003 has been mich higher.
Although the book deals with a serious matter, a high school massacre, sexual child abuse, it is written in such a way that it turns out to be a pleasant read. Well done DBC Pierre!

Thank you once more, ApoloniaX, for RABCK-ing me this book!

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This looks like a fascinating read, it arrived in the mail yesterday and I had to resist the temptation to sneak it to the top of my tbr pile...the very mention of Ctacher In The Rye was enough to set my goosegumps off! I am looking forward to it. Thank you so much for sending it on to me. :)